Thread-guide support for ring-spinning frames



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W. J ENOKS. I THREAD GUIDEISUPPOR-T FOR RING-SPINNING FRAMES.

Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFrIcE.

VELOOME JENOKS, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

THREAD-GUIDE SUPPORT FOR RING-SPINNING FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,441, dated January 19, 1886.

.Applicaiion filed June 15, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WELCOME J ENOKS, of Manchester, in the county of Hillsborough, of the State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Thread- Guide Supports for Ring-Spinning Frames; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which Figure l is a top view of a series of threadguides provided with my invention, such figure also showing the connecting-shaft of such guides. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken through one of the guides, such section showing in dotted lines the guide and fore portion of its arm raised into a vertical position. Fig. 3 is a transverse section showing the guide and both portions of its arm as turned upward out of a horizontal position. In Fig. 4. portions F F of the spinning-frame are shown,with the shaft of the guides as applied to them and provided with a handle for turning it.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claim as hereinafter presented.

In the said'drawings, the yarnguides are represented at A A, &e., each consisting of a piece of round wire of suitable length, bent near one end spirally, as usual, the guideshank or longer straight portion a of the wire being inserted lengthwise within a cylindrical hole or bore, 12, made longitudinally in the fore or front portion, 0, of an arm, 13. The arm B is in two parts, 0 and d, jointed or hinged together, so as to enable the front portion, 0, to be supported in line with the rear portion, d, and to be turned upward into a right angle therewith. The rear portion, d,of each of the arms B is adapted to turn upon a cylindrical shaft or rod, 0, laterally, and to slide thereon longitudinally thereof, such arm being provided with aset-scr.ew, e, for clamping it to the shaft, and such Screw being screwed upward into the arm and against the shaft. Furthermore, the shank a of each guide A is capable of being slid lengthwise and turned transversely within the fore portion of its supporting arm B, a set-screw, f, being screwed into the said fore portion and against the said shank. The shaft or rod 0, arranged horizontally within the Serial hi0. 167 .674. (X0 model.)

spinning-frame, is supported in bearings 99 thereof, so as to be capable of being turned transversely, in order to raise all the arms B, and their guides simultaneously out of a horizontal into an inclined or a vertical position,

F F representing portions of the frame for.

supporting the operative parts of the machine. The hinge or joint connecting the two portions of each arm Bis to be such as to support them in a straight line with each other and to enable the front portion to be turned up into an angle with the rear portion. There projects down from the front portion of each arm B a hook, D, which is to catch a thread or yarn leading through the guide to the traveler when the spindle may be in revolution, and such yarn may have become kinked and broken and thrown out against the hook, such catching of the yarn being to prevent it from becoming entangled or interfering with either of the next adjacent yarns.

From the above it will be seen that the thread-guides are supported by separate arms applied,as described,to a single shaft,and that such arm, is in two parts, jointed together, as explained; also, that each guide can be moved lengthwise and turned transversely in its arm, and besides can be held in place therein by a set-screw; also, that by turning the shaft all the guides and their supporting-arms can be simultaneously raised from ahorizontal into a vertical or an inclined position, so as to be out of the way of the bobbins in the process of doffing or removing them from the spindles, or of supplying the spindles with fresh bobbins; also, thateach guide can be adjusted nearer to or farther from the shaft or nearer to or farther from the next adjacent guide, as may be necessary to bring the said formerguide into its correct position with reference to the spindle immediately below it.

By having the guides applied to arms separated apart from each other or with spaces between them, as represented, most, if not all, of the dust and fibrous matters that usually collect on the thread-guide supports when they are close together and hinged to a rail or bar, as heretofore,will fall through the spaces betweenthe arms, thereby saving the news sity and labor of removing such collections from the supports of the guides. So, by having all the guides provided with means of so as to be capable of being turned or revolved laterally of it, (the said shaft,') a series 15 of separate arms projecting from and each adjustable on such shaft lengthwise thereof and having a set-screw for holding it to the shaft, and a series of yarn-guide carriers, hinged to such arms and furnished with yarn- 20 guides applied to them, (the said carriers,) as

set forth.

WELCOME JENCKS. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

ERNEST B. PRATT. 

